Richard's new book, A Brief History of Doom ... The forgotten causes of the Great Depression ... Parallels between the Great Depression and the Great Recession ... Richard: If Obama had done more for consumers, Trump would not be president ... How railroads led to lots of financial crises in the nineteenth century ... The real economic story of the 1980s ... The late twentieth-century Japanese boom and bust, all due to debt ... Richard: The China crash is coming ... About that BuzzFeed story saying Richard may run for president... ...